Which description best contrasts SSD with a traditional hard drive?

Which description best contrasts SSD with a traditional hard drive?

• A. Faster and smaller, but more expensive
• B. Slower and larger, cheaper
• C. Identical in speed and size
• D. Larger and heavier with less reliability

Answer: (A)

SSDs use flash memory with no moving parts, which makes them much faster for both random access and sustained transfers than traditional hard drives that rely on spinning disks and mechanical arms. They also come in smaller, lighter form factors, while costing more per gigabyte. So the description that says faster and smaller, but more expensive best captures how SSDs compare to HDDs. The other options describe HDDs as slower or larger and cheaper, claim identical speed/size, or suggest SSDs are larger and less reliable, which doesn’t fit how SSDs actually behave.

SSDs use flash memory with no moving parts, which makes them much faster for both random access and sustained transfers than traditional hard drives that rely on spinning disks and mechanical arms. They also come in smaller, lighter form factors, while costing more per gigabyte. So the description that says faster and smaller, but more expensive best captures how SSDs compare to HDDs. The other options describe HDDs as slower or larger and cheaper, claim identical speed/size, or suggest SSDs are larger and less reliable, which doesn’t fit how SSDs actually behave.